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Teaching through the tears: creating cross-border classes in a time of conflict
I first went to Russia in December 1999 to visit a friend of mine who’d just taken a teaching job
06-03-2022
Another five things I’ve learned running the ENGLISH QUESTIONS ANSWERED group
Three years ago now, I was talked into setting up a Facebook group called ENGLISH QUESTIONS ANSWERED. It was designed
01-12-2021
Using texts to develop lexical awareness
In this guest post, Patrick Gallagher outlines how he uses the WORD / CHUNK OF THE DAY sections of this
24-09-2021
Twenty things in twenty years part eleven: we’ve been in thrall to the cults of Learning Styles, NLP and Multiple...
It never ceases to both depress and astound me when I see quite how many conference talks, articles, books and
21-09-2021
Back to school Part Five: challenges and homework
As if to prove the point about procrastination and failing to do stuff outside class that I made in my
02-09-2021
Twenty things in twenty years part ten: the main point of focusing on pronunciation in class isn’t to improve pronunciation!
Pronunciation is quite possibly the most neglected area of language teaching. In many of the classes I’ve observed over the
01-03-2021
Twenty Things in Twenty Years Part Nine: the vast majority of mistakes really aren’t to do with grammar!
The world used to be so tidy. Back in the misty morning of my youth, I seriously did naively believe
22-01-2021
Five more things I’ve learned from running the ENGLISH QUESTIONS ANSWERED group
Two years ago now, I set up a Facebook group called ENGLISH QUESTIONS ANSWERED. In a sense, it was a
26-11-2020
Twenty Things in Twenty Years Part Eight: There’s nothing as practical as a good theory
In the early years of my career, like many others in my profession, I suffered from an insatiable hunger for
07-11-2020
The curse of native speakerism
Many moons ago, I used to work in the EFL department of a university here in London. Among my colleagues
20-10-2020